Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn.
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel Clemens; Walter Chrysler; William Safire].
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn.
First edition of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Abroad; from the libraries of automotive pioneer William Chrysler and later American journalist William Safire
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1894.
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First American edition of the first sequel to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn with 1894 on both the title page and copyright page and the correct binding state ‘A’ with 5 5/8″ between Twain and Webster on spine. BAL 3440. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with illustrations by Dan Beard, four pages of advertisements. From the libraries of Walter Chrysler and, later William Safire with each collector’s bookplate to the pastedown. American industrial pioneer and automotive industry executive Walter Chrysler was the founder and namesake of American Chrysler Corporation, which he founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1925. In addition to his namesake car company, Plymouth and DeSoto marques were created, and in 1928 Chrysler purchased Dodge Brothers and renamed it Dodge. The same year he financed the construction of the Chrysler Building in New York City, which was completed in 1930. Chrysler was named Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1928 and was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1967. William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign in the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. Following Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a presidential speechwriter for both Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press, describing himself as the voice of “libertarian conservatives” and authored several political columns, most notably his weekly column “On Language” which appeared in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death in 2009. He authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safire’s “magnum opus,” Safire’s Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. In very good condition. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half morocco clamshell slipcase. Rare with distinguished provenance.
First published in 1894, Tom Sawyer Abroad “tells in Huck Finn’s vernacular how Tom Sawyer, Huck, and the ex-slave Jim take over a power-driven balloon and navigate it across the Atlantic Ocean and the Sahara Desert to Egypt and Palestine. Mark Twain wrote the story in August 1892… Originally, he intended it to be the first of a series of stories about travels of his famous threesome to foreign lands, but he never carried the plan beyond this first volume” (Mark Twain Encyclopedia, 739).
